Life is never a fair place. Just step away from your dream and you will find the real world full of challenges await you. It is a nightmare, containing all sort problems.

Life is never a fair place. Just step away from your dream and you will find the real world full of challenges await you. It is a nightmare, containing all sort problems. From typical, daily problems to sophisticated problems. There is no ending to this hectic “cycle” of hardship, and struggles. Living one short second without this “cycle” near you would be a dream come true to many people living in the Silicon Valley today. The cost of living in the area is extremely high and the effects of this are countless. Soaring prices has been a major cause for such high cost for living in the Silicon Valley. Everything from gasoline to dining out costs more than in most of the US. Houses are among the most expensive in the country, and rents are high. For example, gas prices have gone up to almost two dollars fifty a gallon in the valley. The cost of a 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom house was sold for $797,000. Besides that, California was struck with power shortage recently, and the electricity bills have risen dramatically. Not only the prices of the utilities went up, but even the prices of food also went up. The food products in the Silicon Valley is much more expensive than the prices in other city in the country. Silicon Valley is consider to be the heart of today technological age. There are many big companies situated here. Lately, the economy has been slowing down and the stock market is on the downfall. This caused many companies to cut off many of their employees, and some even went bankrupt. For example, Cisco laid-off a large portion of its workers in the last three months. The increasing rate of unemployment, made lives of many to be even worse. Without a job, people cannot afford to be living in the Valley anymore. Besides that, the number of low income families or families on welfare also increases. This make the state, itself, need more money to support these families, and the only way is to raise the taxa…